Maser expands Ontario plant.When MaSeR Corp., Marblehead, Mass., started up its Barrie, Ontario For the electoral district, see . Barrie is a city of 128,430 residents,<ref name="2006CensCommun" /> the 35th largest municipality in Canada.<ref name="2006CensMuniPops" /> It is located on Kempenfelt Bay, an arm of Lake Simcoe in Central , Canada, facility in March of 2005, the concept was to provide service te its key client, co-located in Barrie, along with other electronic scrap recyclers throughout Canada. (See "System Upgrade" in the October 2005 issue of Recycling Today.) But the company says that electronics recyclers throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. have expressed interest in shipping material to Ontario to test out and to use the MaSeR system, so the company has upgraded some of its front-end processing equipment to accommodate more material. The Barrie operation is now capable of processing from three to five tons of electronic scrap per hour, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the firm. MaSeR's technology incorporates a de-lamination process along with shredding and separation technology to provide maximum recovery of materials from electronic scrap. Its main client and Barrie landlord Cable Recycling Inc. (CRI-GEEP) considers the MaSeR process key to the growth of its electronics recycling business. "Our clients, particularly Canadian OEMs, will not tolerate unchecked export of electronic scrap and, at the same time, demand an efficient and cost-effective alternative," says Alfred Hambsch, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Barrie Metals and CRI-GEER "They see our asset recovery capabilities, coupled with complete material recovery in the MaSeR process, as an opportunity to dramatically reduce the cost of responsible domestic processing." MaSeR's business plan calls for similar operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Asia within the next few years. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , the upgraded Barrie operation is providing U.S. recyclers with an alternative to de-manufacturing for some items. "We're quite pleased that the U.S. e-recycling community has responded in the manner in which they have," says Dale Johnson, CEO of MaSeR Corp. MaSeR's major investor is Greenwich, Conn.-based Asia West, which backs other advanced environmental technology companies, including recyclers MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration Polymers and Mobius Technologies, both based in California. More information on MaSeR can be found at www.masercorp.com. |
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